I had a 68 GTX. It was the best driving Muscle car I ever had. Good Looking with the "440" call out hood and Torque where it was needed. PS and PB. Drove it on long trips with no problems. Mopar all the way!
This is not only my favorite Plymouth commercial, it's my all-time favorite car commercial! THANK YOU so much for posting such a fine quality version of this. Imagine a nearly 2-minute long commercial. BTW, Petula Clark won a CLIO award (the advertising world's equivalent to a Tony or Oscar) as best female spokesperson in an ad campaign in1968 for her work with Plymouth on this campaign. Osborn, keep doing what you're doing, you post the greatest stuff!!!
+Mister Belvedere This commercial, along with two other Plymouth spots, is included as a bonus feature on the DVD "Petula: Petula Clark's Legendary 1968 TV Special with guest Harry Belafonte".
A great commercial with a real talented performer. Nothing like this can be made today, even if today's cars were not as overpriced and ugly as they are. I always liked Petula's songs "downtown" and "I know a place"
chargermopar I agree. And it's not so much that all automobiles today are "ugly" (although some are, especially those tanks known as SUVs), so much as so many models are generic-looking and nondescript. Back in the 1950s and '60s cars had individual "personalities," if such may be ascribed to an inanimate object. There are a few car models of automobiles today which have a cool look, the revived Volkswagen Beetle and the BMW Mini-Copper to name a few. I have also occasionally seen a convertible, which I always liked the idea of more than actually riding in one. I love those Petula Clark songs too, the ones you mentioned as well as "Don't Sleep in the Subway," "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love," "My Love." and "You're the One," the latter a bigger hit in the U.S. by The Vogues (although Clark composed the melody, with lyrics by her collaborator and producer Tony Hatch).
Was that Charles Bronson voice doing the narrative? Iron American Dream on RUclips. Song about American Iron and Harley Davidsons. Take a ride across America. It's still out there.
I would die to see the "Win you over Barracuda (only)" TV commercial FULLY RESTORED, like this one ; homemoviedepot has put one in line, but all "purplish" and WITHOUT A SOUNDTRACK ; it did the same with this one (can you imagine ?) ; my only wish is to listen to Pet's cover of the Barracuda (only) commercial... it seems to be even more sultry, can anyone help ? - Gilbert from Montreal
+Maurice Gilbert I wish I could help you but with out a negative, there's no way to restore it. You can't restore video, you can restore film. I'll be uploading a ton of stuff this week that just came in from the film restorer I use. Sadly, I don't have a negative of this commercial so no way I can post it..........if homemoviedepot has the negative (even if very redish), it can be restored to HD format. frame by frame, the technology exists. I'll be loading up this week a early 1950 film production of Chrysler in full color
One thing still eludes me : if only a reddish movie can be painfully restored, frame by frame, how come this video is "as crisp as can be" ? The reddish MUTE homemoviedepot film version of it (entitled "THE VALIANT AND THE BARRACUDA") can't account for it) ? That means there are still today some videotapes that have been preserved well enough, for people to upload them "AS IS" (?) That would explain why some results are better than others (your videos, Osborn, are sharp and the sound commendable). So maybe my 1968 "WIN YOU OVER BARRACUDA" (WITH AN ACTUAL SOUNDTRACK) is somewhere out there, waiting to be discovered (?) Could this be true ? Can anyone help ? - Gilbert from Montreal
+Maurice Gilbert Good question, some of my uploads are from video broadcasts where the tape has been saved for years. They don't deteriorate like film. Maybe they come from a sports or TV show broadcast. BUT, they still may have great color, but there is still going to be distortion from the conversion process or the tape having been replayed over and over.....it becomes a bit blurry. Film on the other hand, can be treated like a negative and processed. So the clarity is going to be as good as the original. The redness can be removed. If the film is very old and very deteriorated, it does indeed become "soft" and hard to work with so some redness may never go away. But you are correct, there is Tape and there is Film. Tape can be perfect on color but blurry on the actual image, Film can be very defined but red in color due to deterioration. You can see on line a upload I have of a 1969 Dodge Charger Commercial I found on Tape......and there is also uploaded by someone else, the same commercial but from film that's not restored. You can see the difference between the two very directly
The big '68 Plymouth Furys were not nearly as handsome as the previous year, the '67s, nor as distinctive as the next years new fuselage styled '69 Furys IMHO.
They had some beautiful cars the year I was born,also love Petula Clark!!
I had a 68 GTX. It was the best driving Muscle car I ever had. Good Looking with the "440" call out hood and Torque where it was needed. PS and PB. Drove it on long trips with no problems. Mopar all the way!
I remember when these commercials originally aired. As of 2019, Petula is still singing and touring at nearly age 87!
This is not only my favorite Plymouth commercial, it's my all-time favorite car commercial! THANK YOU so much for posting such a fine quality version of this. Imagine a nearly 2-minute long commercial. BTW, Petula Clark won a CLIO award (the advertising world's equivalent to a Tony or Oscar) as best female spokesperson in an ad campaign in1968 for her work with Plymouth on this campaign. Osborn, keep doing what you're doing, you post the greatest stuff!!!
+Mister Belvedere This commercial, along with two other Plymouth spots, is included as a bonus feature on the DVD "Petula: Petula Clark's Legendary 1968 TV Special with guest Harry Belafonte".
Ahh!, The days of great music, cool cars, and cheap gas. And we really did know how really good it was back then, that's why we all want to go back!
I had a friend who had a 69 GTX in yellow with a white interior..... It was incredibly fast (for those days) and very cool
Very cool and a thumbs up !
Keyboard was actually performed by Ray Manzarek
Back in the day when cars featured 'Radio Antennas'..
A great commercial with a real talented performer. Nothing like this can be made today, even if today's cars were not as overpriced and ugly as they are. I always liked Petula's songs "downtown" and "I know a place"
chargermopar I agree. And it's not so much that all automobiles today are "ugly" (although some are, especially those tanks known as SUVs), so much as so many models are generic-looking and nondescript. Back in the 1950s and '60s cars had individual "personalities," if such may be ascribed to an inanimate object. There are a few car models of automobiles today which have a cool look, the revived Volkswagen Beetle and the BMW Mini-Copper to name a few. I have also occasionally seen a convertible, which I always liked the idea of more than actually riding in one.
I love those Petula Clark songs too, the ones you mentioned as well as "Don't Sleep in the Subway," "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love," "My Love." and "You're the One," the latter a bigger hit in the U.S. by The Vogues (although Clark composed the melody, with lyrics by her collaborator and producer Tony Hatch).
Back when ships were made of wood and men made of steel.
A very sexy Petula Clark.
Was that Charles Bronson voice doing the narrative?
Iron American Dream on RUclips.
Song about American Iron and Harley Davidsons.
Take a ride across America.
It's still out there.
I would die to see the "Win you over Barracuda (only)" TV commercial FULLY RESTORED, like this one ; homemoviedepot has put one in line, but all "purplish" and WITHOUT A SOUNDTRACK ; it did the same with this one (can you imagine ?) ; my only wish is to listen to Pet's cover of the Barracuda (only) commercial... it seems to be even more sultry, can anyone help ? - Gilbert from Montreal
+Maurice Gilbert I wish I could help you but with out a negative, there's no way to restore it. You can't restore video, you can restore film. I'll be uploading a ton of stuff this week that just came in from the film restorer I use. Sadly, I don't have a negative of this commercial so no way I can post it..........if homemoviedepot has the negative (even if very redish), it can be restored to HD format. frame by frame, the technology exists. I'll be loading up this week a early 1950 film production of Chrysler in full color
O.K. I understand... thanks for replying so soon... and keep up the good work !!
One thing still eludes me : if only a reddish movie can be painfully restored, frame by frame, how come this video is "as crisp as can be" ? The reddish MUTE homemoviedepot film version of it (entitled "THE VALIANT AND THE BARRACUDA") can't account for it) ? That means there are still today some videotapes that have been preserved well enough, for people to upload them "AS IS" (?) That would explain why some results are better than others (your videos, Osborn, are sharp and the sound commendable). So maybe my 1968 "WIN YOU OVER BARRACUDA" (WITH AN ACTUAL SOUNDTRACK) is somewhere out there, waiting to be discovered (?) Could this be true ? Can anyone help ? - Gilbert from Montreal
+Maurice Gilbert Good question, some of my uploads are from video broadcasts where the tape has been saved for years. They don't deteriorate like film. Maybe they come from a sports or TV show broadcast. BUT, they still may have great color, but there is still going to be distortion from the conversion process or the tape having been replayed over and over.....it becomes a bit blurry. Film on the other hand, can be treated like a negative and processed. So the clarity is going to be as good as the original. The redness can be removed. If the film is very old and very deteriorated, it does indeed become "soft" and hard to work with so some redness may never go away. But you are correct, there is Tape and there is Film. Tape can be perfect on color but blurry on the actual image, Film can be very defined but red in color due to deterioration. You can see on line a upload I have of a 1969 Dodge Charger Commercial I found on Tape......and there is also uploaded by someone else, the same commercial but from film that's not restored. You can see the difference between the two very directly
It's Petula Clark, She's in her 80's now and still performing today. Had a song on the charts only recently.
The big '68 Plymouth Furys were not nearly as handsome as the previous year, the '67s, nor as distinctive as the next years new fuselage styled '69 Furys IMHO.